Lepage Park
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$35Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4241 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
LePage Park is located at the confluence of the John Day and Columbia Rivers just five miles from Rufus, Oregon, and the John Day Dam. Popular activities include river fishing, swimming, water skiing and boating. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors enjoy boating, water sports and swimming in the river. Anglers fish for smallmouth bass, catfish, and abundant sunfish. A boat ramp is located at the campground for convenient river access.
Facilities
The campground offers 22 sites with electric hookups and 20 primitive walk-to tent sites. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.
Natural Features
The park is situated in a river basin with a high desert climate. Mature shade trees line the edges of this open grassy park on the banks of the John Day River. Wildlife is abundant in the area, such as mule deer, waterfowl, and birds of prey. Contact Info Between 04/15/2024 and 10/15/2024 this location is staffed. Please call (541) 739-2713 to speak with local staff. From 10/16/2024 to 10/31/2030 this location is unstaffed. Please call (541) 739-1135 for general information.
What the agency tells you
Apr 15-Oct 15 LePage Park Gate House: 541 739-2713 Apr 15-Oct 15 Plymouth Park Gate House: 509 783-1270 Year round John Day Dam: 541 739-1135
Camping limited to 14 days within a 30-consecutive day period.
Trailers are required to have a tow vehicle available throughout duration of reservation. If renting a trailer through a separate company, please call John Day Ranger Office (541) 739-1135 for approval.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
RV sites are limited to one RV unit and one tent OR two tents. Tent sites are limited to two tents per site. Maximum occupancy of eight people per site.
Rattlesnakes may be present; use caution.
Pets are allowed and must be kept on a maximum 6ft leash at all times.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Off-road vehicles not permitted
STOP THE SPREAD OF INVASIVE SPECIES. Remove plants, seeds, animals, and mud from boots, gear, pets, and vehicles. Clean your gear before entering and leaving the recreation site. Stay on designated roads and trails, and follow local guidelines for firewood. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY boats and any other recreational equipment that contacts water. Dispose of unwanted bait, worms, fish parts, or other organisms into the trash and not into the environment. For more information visit https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/rec.
********************************** • Restrooms will be open and cleaned, however visitors need to take necessary precautions to ensure personal hygiene. Restrooms are only as sanitary as the last user. • Bring your own soap, hand sanitizer and other hygienic products. *************************************************
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42 · 20 walk-in
- Hookups
- 21 electric, 22 water
- Longest rig
- 56 ft
- Paved pads
- 22 of 42
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- 40 of 41 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…tent sites. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. Natural Features The…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Sailboarding
- Sailing
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water Skiing
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 626th darkest of 770 in OR
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 42 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$35 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 42 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 40 of the 42 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LPAR | 01 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 34 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 02 | type not stated | 48 ft | 50 amp | 47 ft | ||
| LPAR | 03 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 47 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 04 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 41 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 05 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 47 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 06 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 33 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 32 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 08 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 49 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 09 | standard electric | 42 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 81 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 10 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 104 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 11 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 32 ft | 116 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 122 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 13 | standard electric | 44 ft | 50 amp | 38 ft | 127 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 14 | standard electric | 39 ft | 50 amp | 60 ft | 125 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 15 | standard electric | 33 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 109 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 16 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 112 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 17 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 118 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 18 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 26 ft | 106 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 19 | standard electric | 34 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 100 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 20 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 29 ft | 101 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 21 | standard electric | 32 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 103 ft | $30–$35 |
| LPAR | 22 | rv electric | 33 ft | 50 amp | 39 ft | 109 ft | |
| LPAR | T1 | walk to | 36 ft | 388 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T10 | walk to | 50 ft | 105 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T11 | walk to | 46 ft | 378 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T12 | walk to | 35 ft | 323 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T13 | walk to | 49 ft | 256 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T14 | walk to | 42 ft | 154 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T15 | walk to | 41 ft | 412 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T16 | walk to | 41 ft | 372 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T17 | walk to | 35 ft | 334 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T18 | walk to | 47 ft | 295 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T19 | walk to | 49 ft | 250 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T2 | walk to | 36 ft | 392 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T20 | walk to | 119 ft | 176 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T3 | walk to | 43 ft | 407 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T4 | walk to | 41 ft | 424 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T5 | walk to | 50 ft | 337 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T6 | walk to | 42 ft | 287 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T7 | walk to | 42 ft | 246 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T8 | walk to | 42 ft | 204 ft | $15–$20 | ||
| LPAR | T9 | walk to | 42 ft | 155 ft | $15–$20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Gotchen Guard Station38 miFrom Dalles, Oregon, take I-84 east for 30 miles. Take exit 114 and follow signs to the John Day River.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rufus, OR
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Lepage Park is in Oregon’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Cliff Bentz (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →